Eye-catching headlines from Sunday
Bill Rodgers has won the Boston Marathon four times. He is one of only two men alive who have won it three straight years (not counting the wheelchair division of course). He retired from marathoning years ago, but today he announced that he will run next year's Boston Marathon in a show of unity.
At the London Marathon, over 36,000 runners at the starting line grew quiet and observed a moment of silence to honor the victims and people of Boston. Very moving.
From the "you should have stayed quiet" file: actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested in Atlanta for disorderly conduct after she refused to stay in the car while her husband, CAA agent Jim Toth was being arrested for DUI.
NBC Sports will not comment on whether or not the DUI arrest of longtime Sunday Night Football announcer Al Michaels will have any impact on his future with the network. He was cited for DUI in Santa Monica this past Friday and released on a citation a few hours later. He has a court date on June 26th.
In the wake of the big scandal in Atlanta regarding cheating on standardized tests in the public schools, a teacher at Burbank's McKinley Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave, after a third-grade student reported that the teacher helped students answer questions on a standardized test this past week.
Two brothers in their 60s who share a house in Pasadena, had an altercation on Friday. Eventually, one hit the other with a hammer. There were no serious injuries and the brother who used the hammer as a weapon was arrested and charged with Assault With a Deadly Weapon.
A Boston area Transit Authority policeman who was shot while in pursuit of the marathon bombing suspect lost all of his blood supply, but is now expected to survive. Doctors resuscitated his heart and replaced the blood via transfusion. He is in the ICU today and on a respirator, but has managed to wiggle his toes and squeeze the fingers of others.
Estimates for the weekend box office totals show that Tom Cruise's new film "Oblivion" will win the weekend contest with $38.1 million. Last week's champ "42" is a solid 2nd, with $18 million and "The Croods" finished 3rd with $9.5 million. "The Place Beyond the Pines" broke much wider and did well, while a French film "In the House" brought in nearly $12,000 per screen on three screens.
My favorite cop show on TV at the moment is "Southland" and it is struggling to be renewed for another season. Maybe the cameo appearance that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck made will help. What's really cool is that Chief Beck donated his entire payment for the appearance (more than $1,000) to Homeboy Industries. Nice job, Chief.
Adolphus Busch IV, grandson of the founder of Anheuser-Busch and a lifelong hunter has resigned his membership in the National Rifle Association in the wake of the NRA's change of position on background checks. In 1991, the NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre stated just that position.
Robert Earl Holding has died at the age of 86. He was the owner of Sinclair Oil, and the Sun Valley Ski resort, and was worth more than $3 billion.
In Arizona, a van carrying 22 people was fleeing from the Border Patrol when it overturned, killing five of its passengers.
At the London Marathon, over 36,000 runners at the starting line grew quiet and observed a moment of silence to honor the victims and people of Boston. Very moving.
From the "you should have stayed quiet" file: actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested in Atlanta for disorderly conduct after she refused to stay in the car while her husband, CAA agent Jim Toth was being arrested for DUI.
NBC Sports will not comment on whether or not the DUI arrest of longtime Sunday Night Football announcer Al Michaels will have any impact on his future with the network. He was cited for DUI in Santa Monica this past Friday and released on a citation a few hours later. He has a court date on June 26th.
In the wake of the big scandal in Atlanta regarding cheating on standardized tests in the public schools, a teacher at Burbank's McKinley Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave, after a third-grade student reported that the teacher helped students answer questions on a standardized test this past week.
Two brothers in their 60s who share a house in Pasadena, had an altercation on Friday. Eventually, one hit the other with a hammer. There were no serious injuries and the brother who used the hammer as a weapon was arrested and charged with Assault With a Deadly Weapon.
A Boston area Transit Authority policeman who was shot while in pursuit of the marathon bombing suspect lost all of his blood supply, but is now expected to survive. Doctors resuscitated his heart and replaced the blood via transfusion. He is in the ICU today and on a respirator, but has managed to wiggle his toes and squeeze the fingers of others.
Estimates for the weekend box office totals show that Tom Cruise's new film "Oblivion" will win the weekend contest with $38.1 million. Last week's champ "42" is a solid 2nd, with $18 million and "The Croods" finished 3rd with $9.5 million. "The Place Beyond the Pines" broke much wider and did well, while a French film "In the House" brought in nearly $12,000 per screen on three screens.
My favorite cop show on TV at the moment is "Southland" and it is struggling to be renewed for another season. Maybe the cameo appearance that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck made will help. What's really cool is that Chief Beck donated his entire payment for the appearance (more than $1,000) to Homeboy Industries. Nice job, Chief.
Adolphus Busch IV, grandson of the founder of Anheuser-Busch and a lifelong hunter has resigned his membership in the National Rifle Association in the wake of the NRA's change of position on background checks. In 1991, the NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre stated just that position.
Robert Earl Holding has died at the age of 86. He was the owner of Sinclair Oil, and the Sun Valley Ski resort, and was worth more than $3 billion.
In Arizona, a van carrying 22 people was fleeing from the Border Patrol when it overturned, killing five of its passengers.
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